Mike
Tue Apr 20 11:32:44 CDT 2004
What has Microsoft got to do with your problem? The same would happened to
you irrespective of the newsserver or newsgroup to which you posted. Swen was
one such virus that sent itself to users of newsgroups and did so irrespective
of the operating system in use by the target. Blame Microsoft perhaps for
allowing their system to have the loophole that allowed Swen to propagate but
also a lot of blame must rest with those many many users who not only failed
to patch their PCs (the necessary patch to prevent Swen having been released
over two years before the virus began circulating) but who also failed to use
or update their antivirus application. Other more recent viruses are now
following where Swen lead and harvesting the addresses of possible targets in
the same fashion as Swen.
Microsoft took action to help prevent this by many weeks ago using
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com as the default address for those posting
messages to this newsgroup using the pathetic lame web interface that you are
using. If you chose to amend that to your own address the fault lies closer
to home and not with Microsoft.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
Bob K <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> a couple of weeks ago, while responding to a note here, I
> put one of my e-mail addresses into the 'Sender's E-mail'
> line in the 'Post a New Message' screen. Now I am
> averaging about a dozen e-mails with virus attachments per
> day. I have shut down that e-mail address, which
> fortunately was a backup specifically for risky sites.
> Now I just need a new one.